This week we are going to create a simple widget, which combines the number of your RSS readers, twitter followers, and fans of your facebook fan page, to give a rough estimate of your social popularity.

You can do pretty amazing things with PHP as a language. PHP has a concept dubbed variable variables, which pretty much refers to defining variables dynamically. So how can we use variable variables with PHP Super Global Variables? The PHP manual states that you cannot, but in fact you can and I am going to show you how now.

With the release of PHP 5.3, the use of anonymous functions was finally introduced into the PHP language. Yet, most PHP developers are keen to admit that they do not know what they are or how they are meant to be used. In this tutorial, I hope to address both of those questions using variation of examples that use and do not use anonymous functions.

In this tutorial we are making a simple AJAX-ed Todo List App, with PHP, MySQL and jQuery. In the process we are going to demonstrate PHP’s OOP capabilities, play with jQuery UI and implement some nice AJAX functionality.